Rick Warren retiring as lead pastor at California megachurch

SANTA ANA, Calif. – Megachurch pastor Rick Warren has introduced his retirement immediately after 42 many years of major Saddleback Church in Southern California. A look for for his successor will be released this week.

The properly-identified evangelical pastor and ideal-advertising author informed his congregation on Sunday that the lookup is not the stop but the “beginning of the starting,” The Orange County Register noted Monday.

Warren, 67, mentioned he will carry on to serve as direct pastor till a successor is in area. He reported he will then step back into a fewer “visible placement as founding pastor.”

There is no timeline for the lookup, which will appear at candidates both equally in just and outside the church. Warren declined to speak about his retirement designs on Monday.

“Kay and I built this ridiculous promise when we were being 25 decades outdated that we would give 40 several years to one locale, that we would not shift and that we would not be tempted to go to a further church,” Warren claimed in advance of preaching his 40th Easter service in 2019.

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Warren reported then that he was presented a collection of positions with Christian companies, seminaries and denominations, but hardly ever moved.

With its key campus in Lake Forest, south of Los Angeles, Saddleback Church has developed to 14 places in Southern California with an average weekly attendance of 30,000. There are 4 intercontinental campuses, in Hong Kong, Germany, the Philippines and Argentina.

Warren, who has far more than 11 million social media followers, has prepared many guides, such as “The Goal Driven Everyday living.” In 2005, Time magazine named Warren a single of the “100 Most Influential Persons in the Planet.”